CloudGuard Network Security with Threat Prevention and SandBlast

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about CloudGuard Network Security is that it gives really strong protection for my cloud traffic. It’s reliable, integrates well with AWS and Azure, and I like how easy it is to manage security policies in one place. The threat prevention feels solid and up to date.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes the setup and configuration can be a bit tricky, especially for more complex environments. The interface could be a little more intuitive, and updates or policy changes can take some time to apply. It’s also not the cheapest option out there.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

CloudGuard Network Security helps us protect cloud workloads and traffic from external threats and misconfigurations. It makes it easier to manage security across multiple cloud platforms and keeps our policies consistent. The biggest benefit is better visibility and control, which gives us more confidence that our environment is secure.

What do you like best about the product?

This product provides a reliable and secure network for your businesses. It gives a massive amount of upside features for a cloud-based environment such as data loss prevention, IPS, application control, IPSec VPN, URL filtering, antivirus, threat emulation and threat extraction. Customer support provided by Check Point vendor is one of the best options to choose this product.

What do you dislike about the product?

First time implementation for an unexperienced engineer with this product is not good easy. Learning resources are not easy to understand for a junior. Its cost is a drawback feature for a developing country although its product's capabilities is absolutely good.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

For AWS Cloud, It protects cloud assets with a full suite of advanced security capabilities, including firewall, data protection, IPS, IPSec VPN for network traffic security, URL filtering, antivirus, threat emulation and threat extraction.

What do you like best about the product?

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security provides unified, cloud-native protection with advanced threat prevention, centralized policy management, and seamless scalability-making it an ideal solution for securing hybrid and multi-cloud environments with operational efficiency and deep visibility.

What do you dislike about the product?

While check point CloudGuard Network Security offers powerful, consistent threat prevention across multi-cloud environments, its value is often diminished by step licensing costs, difficult integrations, and limited visibility into detailed log data.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is a robust, cloud-native solution that delivers consistent, advanced threat prevention and unified policy enforcement across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. It empowers organization to secure dynamic workloads, automate security operations, and reduce breach and compliance risks-all from a single, scalable management platform.

My main use case for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security  is that we're using it to filter inbound and outbound Azure  traffic from on-premises to Azure  and from Azure to the internet.

I use it for filtering traffic between on-premises and Azure to secure an SAP application accessed from on-premises while the SAP is in Azure.

The best features Check Point CloudGuard Network Security  offers are security features, VPN capabilities, filtering, and IPS.

I rely on IPS and access control the most because it controls access to on-premises and from Azure.

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has positively impacted my organization by making the network more secure and controlling the access to the applications.

I think Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is an ideal product, so I see no improvements needed.

If I had to think of one area where it could be improved or made easier, I would say that support isn't very good and documentation sometimes is lacking.

I have been using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for four years.

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is stable in my experience.

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's scalability is good because we can put the firewalls in VM scale sets and scale.

The customer support is not good.

Neutral

I did not previously use a different solution before Check Point CloudGuard Network Security.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is that pricing was good, the initial setup is easy, and licensing is a bring your own license, so it's good to bring licenses already from on-premises.

Before choosing Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, I evaluated other options, including Fortinet.

My advice to others looking into using Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is to deploy with scale set.

I would rate Check Point CloudGuard Network Security an eight out of ten because it's mostly complete and the support is a minor downside.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

What do you like best about the product?

Its ability to deliver advanced, automated threat prevention with unified security management across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments, all from a single pane of glass, is what stands out most.

What do you dislike about the product?

Cost, a steep learning curve, and occasional deployment complexities—especially with integrations and console management—can make implementation and ongoing administration more challenging than expected.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It addresses the challenge of securing hybrid and multi‑cloud environments by providing unified, automated threat visibility, enabling faster response to threats, simplified prevention and centralized management, and consistent security policies across all network assets.